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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The second issue is the timing of some of the major expenses.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The second issue is the timing of some of the major expenses.

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What Makes a Great VP of Sales and How to Hire One

SaaStr

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. It goes something like “You’ve Got to Get Past the Carcass of Your First VP of Sales” or “It’s The Second VP of Sales When You Really Start Selling” or variants thereof. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail.

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5 Startup Roles That Help you Grow Faster

SaaSX

You may be hesitant to add the overhead for what appear to be operational roles but in my experience the right people are revenue levers, helping you sell more, faster. Here are 5 roles you may not have thought of and how they can help drive immediate revenue & sales efficiency impact. Is it time for a sales engineer?

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.